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Feels Villeneuve posted:Yeah hating Shoney's is now classist or something Scott Steiner owns a Shoney's. Do not piss off Scott Steiner.
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My local AMC basically serves applebees quality food and turns out when you're watching a movie, any ol' meal is fine. Of course, you then wonder how three softwrap tacos and a handful of chips can be 1500 calories, but hey.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Chili's is also bad but I generally enjoy myself there significantly more than Applebee's Food's the same but usually at Chili's they at least heat up the plate they prepared an hour ago before they bring it to you, Applebee's doesn't even give that much of a poo poo Applebee's is an extremely lovely place to work even by the appallingly low standards of chain restaurants
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MourningView posted:Spencer rules I've never really read him before, at least that I can remember, so I looked for recent stuff and this piece is loving magnificent. https://www.sbnation.com/features/2018/2/26/17027836/waste-management-phoenix-open-rickie-fowler-phil-mickelson quote:Where they’re from if they’re not from Phoenix are for the most part cold places — Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto. They wear chicken suits, Dilly Dilly shirts, matching dri-fit golf shirts with things like THE MURPHY TREK 2018 stenciled on the chest. They are, by a shocking percentage, here for bachelor parties. The Waste Management Phoenix Open is the broheim antipode to the entire Nashville bachelorette phenomenon and its screaming horde of drunk ladies partying by a river while sipping cocktails out of obscene straws.
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Of all those fast casual crap holes I’ve always enjoyed TGI Friday’s the best.
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I'm not at all a food snob and am fine with most any chain restaurant, it's whatever, but Applebee's is really that bad yeah. I'm not sure how they gently caress up so bad. I feel the same way about Papa John's re: pizza chains.
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Goons Can't Shut Up About Food, Film at 11 There's now some reason to cast doubt on the Mark Schlabach expose on Arizona Basketball
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Kalli posted:My local AMC basically serves applebees quality food and turns out when you're watching a movie, any ol' meal is fine. 
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Redgrendel2001 posted:I've never really read him before, at least that I can remember, so I looked for recent stuff and this piece is loving magnificent. This is going to be appalling but I only knew him as a ~twitter and podcast personality~ and never read his stuff but he is drat good.
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The main problem with low-mid tier dine in chains isn’t that they’re bad, of course they’re bad. The problem is they’re bad and also like 15 dollars for an entree for some reason. You can get amazing food for like 10 bucks most places, or pay 15-20 for a good dining experience... they have no reason to exist. Sorry to get mad and scream at everyone like this.
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https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/968963290087923712 yep
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Their menus at places like Chilis or Cheesecake Factory are broad enough (and bland enough) that a whole family can go out to eat at one without endless arguing (I don't like Chinese! We just had pizza last night! I wanna cheesburger! etc) about where to go. There's something on those oversized menus for everyone. That's about the only case I've ever seen made for them.
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Five thirty eight is probably a better fit there than ESPN/Disney
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Is there some insane money behind The Athletic? I thought one of the benefits of 538 was ABC could use Nate during the elections. But now I guess there are so many nerds doing that stuff that they could find another. Also Fazolis owns.
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Niwrad posted:Is there some insane money behind The Athletic? Yes, it's a VC scam intended to, in their founders' own words, monopolize sports journalism
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Niwrad posted:Is there some insane money behind The Athletic? I thought one of the benefits of 538 was ABC could use Nate during the elections. But now I guess there are so many nerds doing that stuff that they could find another. I’d imagine he either already has a separate on air contract or they’d work out a deal to make one, which the Athletic would be foolish to have any issue with as it would only further eyeballs on them.
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P sure it's not a VC scam. They wouldn't be spending money if it was supposed to scam money out of the VC's Mostly it them making investments and hoping they pay off. I hope they find sustainable success, as I greatly enjoy the coverage I see on the Chicago site. And yeah like there are a couple of writers for the athletic who do on air stuff for Fox/CBS IIRC
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sportsgenius86 posted:I’d imagine he either already has a separate on air contract or they’d work out a deal to make one, which the Athletic would be foolish to have any issue with as it would only further eyeballs on them. I think the luster has come off election forecasting a little bit anyway, even if Silver did comparably well
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morestuff posted:I think the luster has come off election forecasting a little bit anyway, even if Silver did comparably well Ultimately I think.most people are just going to lump him in with everyone else who got it wrong, even though he was wrong to a lesser degree. He also, by his own admission, was way off during the primary so a lot of the shine was already off him
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MourningView posted:Ultimately I think.most people are just going to lump him in with everyone else who got it wrong, even though he was wrong to a lesser degree. He also, by his own admission, was way off during the primary so a lot of the shine was already off him For me personally the reason I cooled on Silver is that whatever the utility of his stats models in predicting elections, most of his actual political analysis has been virtually indistinguishable from any other random pundit. During the primary he wrote a column about how Trump voters might not actually vote or one of the many similar excuses people came up with for why Trump's polls didn't count. And it was virtually identical to all of the articles by other pundits on why Trump could never actually win. When you take away the statistical models he's basically a replacement level pundit.
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JoeCL posted:For me personally the reason I cooled on Silver is that whatever the utility of his stats models in predicting elections, most of his actual political analysis has been virtually indistinguishable from any other random pundit. During the primary he wrote a column about how Trump voters might not actually vote or one of the many similar excuses people came up with for why Trump's polls didn't count. And it was virtually identical to all of the articles by other pundits on why Trump could never actually win. When you take away the statistical models he's basically a replacement level pundit. Honestly feels like the Upshot is doing more interesting/newer things over the last few years.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Yes, it's a VC scam intended to, in their founders' own words, monopolize sports journalism That makes it sound a lot more evil than it is. Most sports journalist work for a handful of large media conglomerates anyways. Ones that are either increasingly moving away from the written word and towards video or are still running their operations like it’s 1957. The Athletic monopolizing sports journalism would be better than what we’ve got now.
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Mahoning posted:The Athletic monopolizing sports journalism would be better than what we’ve got now. The whole reason VCs or angel investors--or whatever phrase du jour you want to use for them--invest in a company is because the ultimate endgame is the company is sold and everyone gets rich(er); no one invests money without an exit strategy. The only way The Athletic doesn't eventually become yet another soulless water-carrier for the leagues is if there's an investor who's in it for an absurdly long haul; otherwise they'll get swallowed up in three to five years by some investment or "asset management" firm.
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After making that Fazolis crack, of course my kid ended up having dinner at the same exact dog poo poo Applebees in Kenosha that started this.
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Timby posted:The whole reason VCs or angel investors--or whatever phrase du jour you want to use for them--invest in a company is because the ultimate endgame is the company is sold and everyone gets rich(er); no one invests money without an exit strategy. The only way The Athletic doesn't eventually become yet another soulless water-carrier for the leagues is if there's an investor who's in it for an absurdly long haul; otherwise they'll get swallowed up in three to five years by some investment or "asset management" firm. So what? For the time being it’s the some of the best sports journalism in one place and to boot there’s not an ad or video in sight. The possibility that things might change in the future is irrelevant. I’ll cancel the second things change for the worse. And I don’t read a website because I give a gently caress what it might be like in 5 months or 5 years. Nor do I give a gently caress who owns it or why.
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Vancouver writer goes in on national hockey writer Elliotte Friedman http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/ed-willes-poor-canucks-hounded-hurt-by-toxic-nabobs-of-negativity:quote:So why would Elliotte Frickin’ Friedman care so passionately about the Vancouver market, and why would he launch such an impassioned defence of Linden and Benning from The Big Smoke?
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JoeCL posted:For me personally the reason I cooled on Silver is that whatever the utility of his stats models in predicting elections, most of his actual political analysis has been virtually indistinguishable from any other random pundit. During the primary he wrote a column about how Trump voters might not actually vote or one of the many similar excuses people came up with for why Trump's polls didn't count. And it was virtually identical to all of the articles by other pundits on why Trump could never actually win. When you take away the statistical models he's basically a replacement level pundit. His actual punditry was rudimentary true, but he was also one of the few people shouting about how Hillary did not actually have this locked up and it was significantly closer than polls and models (including his own models) were saying it was. I'll give him credit there, but his actual political commentary (and most commentary to be fair) is just so cliche and bland. I do agree that the Upshot is doing some really awesome stuff right now.
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Akileese posted:His actual punditry was rudimentary true, but he was also one of the few people shouting about how Hillary did not actually have this locked up and it was significantly closer than polls and models (including his own models) were saying it was. I'll give him credit there, but his actual political commentary (and most commentary to be fair) is just so cliche and bland. I do agree that the Upshot is doing some really awesome stuff right now. I like the Upshot, but I'm not sure if I'll ever forgive them for the election night needle
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ESPN might be in a bit of trouble here. https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2018/03/01/arizona-sean-miller-deandre-ayton-espn-report
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Niwrad posted:ESPN might be in a bit of trouble here. Not really. Even if the ESPN report was wrong to succeed in a defamation suit they would have to prove ESPN knew it was false and good luck with that.
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FMguru posted:Their menus at places like Chilis or Cheesecake Factory are broad enough (and bland enough) that a whole family can go out to eat at one without endless arguing (I don't like Chinese! We just had pizza last night! I wanna cheesburger! etc) about where to go. There's something on those oversized menus for everyone. Cheesecake Factory works groups because of the menus, plus they’re loving gigantic and you don’t need a reservation.
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MourningView posted:Not really. Even if the ESPN report was wrong to succeed in a defamation suit they would have to prove ESPN knew it was false and good luck with that. Still a pretty big black eye for them though. Similar to SI with their bogus Oklahoma State exposé
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Remember the "If I Did It?" OJ interview done like 12 years ago that never saw the light of day? It's back and Fox is gonna air it
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DJExile posted:Remember the "If I Did It?" OJ interview done like 12 years ago that never saw the light of day? It's back and Fox is gonna air it That can't possibly go south for Fox
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That can't possibly go south for Fox I sorta love that not only do they have the balls to air this, but they want it to run up against their own former show.
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Serious question: Is Bill Simmons 100 years old? https://twitter.com/billsimmons/status/969619379544473600?s=21
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